Part 1 of Essay
Tyler's "Accidental Tourist" and "Searching For Caleb": Individualism and Anne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb are concerned with the family and individualism. In the Accidental Tourist each character undergoes a transformation between individualism and belonging to his family. Individualism ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... there is a portrait of the Leary children at the Leary household. This portrait symbolizes the security that Macon feels now that he has moved back into the unchanging past (Reisman 1980). Then Macon met a woman, Muriel, and "he felt content with everything exactly the way it was. He seemed to be suspended, his life on hold." (161) With Muriel he was isolated from his family. He is an individual who does not need family to rule his life. However, Macon finally returns to his wife and family. He returns b ....